{"id":55516,"date":"2004-11-05T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-06T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=55516"},"modified":"2025-04-25T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T22:36:00","slug":"the-christians-sabbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-christians-sabbath\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christian\u2019s Sabbath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\tby Jeffrey W. Hamilton<br \/>\nbased on an ad by Floyd Chappelear\n<p>Some people teach that the Ten Commandments are a set of permanent laws established by God at the creation of the world. They believe that Christians are still supposed to be in obedience to these laws, including the law of observing the Sabbath on the seventh day of the week. What they fail to notice is that the Ten Commandments were only given to the nation of Israel (Exodus 31:16-17). Even their ancestors did not have a law like the commandments given to them by Moses (Deuteronomy 5:1-5).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/resting-300x130.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" \/>Later, the prophet Jeremiah said that new law would be given to God&#8217;s people which would not be like the commandments given by Moses on Mount Sinai (Jeremiah 31:31-32). When Jesus died on the cross, the old Law of Moses was removed, including the laws dealing with feasts, new moon celebrations, and Sabbath observances (Colossians 2:11-17).<\/p>\n<p>Many of the ideas contained in the Ten Commandments are still true under the Law of Christ. Acts of lying, murder, stealing, and adultery continue to be wrong &#8211; not because the Ten Commandments say they are wrong, but because Christ&#8217;s law condemns these practices.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to learn more about the law of Christ and the Christian&#8217;s Sabbath (Hebrews 4:4-11) call, visit, or write.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jeffrey W. Hamilton based on an ad by Floyd Chappelear Some people teach that the Ten Commandments are a set of permanent laws established by God at the creation of the world. They believe that Christians are still supposed to be in obedience to these laws, including the law of observing the Sabbath on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[348],"class_list":["post-55516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-sabbath"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1369,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/observing-the-sabbath\/","url_meta":{"origin":55516,"position":0},"title":"Observing the Sabbath (Article)","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 1, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. Hamilton The first mention of the Sabbath day appears in Exodus 16. It is true that God rested on the seventh day after creating the world in six days. However, in the nearly 3,000-year record which was given in Genesis, there is no mention of mankind observing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":86813,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/observing-the-sabbath-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":55516,"position":1},"title":"Observing the Sabbath (Sermon)","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 27, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: II Corinthians 3:1-11 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A well-known, active group is the Seventh-Day Adventist \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They hold an odd mixture of beliefs: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They won\u2019t accept medical treatment, relying solely on prayer instead; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0They believe in modern-day prophecy, making many wild claims that never seem to come true; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Audio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1945,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/do-the-ten-commandments-apply-to-christians\/","url_meta":{"origin":55516,"position":2},"title":"Do the Ten Commandments apply to Christians?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 23, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: If we, as Christians, no longer follow the laws of the Old Testament, does that also apply to the Ten Commandments? Answer: People today tend to look at the Ten Commandments as an entity separate from the Mosaical Law. Yet, these ten commandments were the prelude to the body\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Answer&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":53828,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-law-and-the-commandments\/","url_meta":{"origin":55516,"position":3},"title":"The Law and the Commandments","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: Deuteronomy 30:6-16 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Seventh-Day Adventists insist that the only acceptable day of worship is the seventh day of the week, the Sabbath day. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To get to that belief, they insist that the Ten Commandments are separate from the rest of the Law of Moses. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0While\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Audio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":68221,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/law-of-god-and-law-of-moses-are-they-the-same\/","url_meta":{"origin":55516,"position":4},"title":"Law of God and Law of Moses: Are They the Same?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 30, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"by Terry Wane Benton Seventh-Day Adventists have long made the claim that the \"law of God\" is the moral and permanently binding \"Ten Commandments\" that were kept inside the ark of the covenant, while claiming that the \"law of Moses\" was different. They claim it was \"ceremonial\" law and placed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17818,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/which-law-is-the-law\/","url_meta":{"origin":55516,"position":5},"title":"Which law is the law?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I have a friend who has fallen into the World Mission Society Church of God which is an anti-Christian cult. I have been trying to witness to her and she had presented me with different beliefs that I'm having trouble answering in regards to the law. 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